Crown Mews Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire

4 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU6), about 20 m long. USRN 6000440.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Central Bedfordshire cost £355,263 in August 2026 (+0.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,258 a month.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A505, carries 15,685 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leagrave, about 4.9 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Grove House Gardens, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 146 to 148 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is West Street Surgery, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 250 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Central Bedfordshire

A typical home in Central Bedfordshire cost £355,263 in August 2026, 0.1% more than a year before. That is 15% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£603,864
Semi-detached£376,156
Terraced£299,898
Flat or maisonette£173,335
Bought by a first-time buyer£299,948

Private renters in Central Bedfordshire paid £1,258 a month on average in September 2026, 4.4% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£870
Two bedrooms£1,105
Three bedrooms£1,386
Four or more bedrooms£2,057

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2026 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: Flat (1); House, mid-terrace (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2012-2021 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 15,838 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% more than the district's 12,760 kWh, and 2,792 kWh of electricity, 23% less than the district's 3,647 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is LU6.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 860 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Dunstable Conservation Area. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Trinity Hall Farm Central Bedfordshire CB/10/03200/FULL Anaerobic digestion 1.1 MW Operational Nov 2012 4.4 km (2.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 4 addresses are between 146 m and 148 m above sea level (147 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LU6 1GA100%100%100%0%
LU6 1LP100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLeagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3.1 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Harlington (Bedfordshire) 308,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Regent Street Dunstable50 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre7.5 km (4.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashton Square Car Park430 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN10.9 km (6.8 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Street Surgery Good Feb 2020410 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dunstable Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dunstable Dental Practice50 m
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital Requires improvement Jan 20263.5 km (2.2 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashton Lodge Good Jul 2021260 m
Police stationDunstable Police Station380 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash In & Out Machine Asda Lloyds Bank440 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grove House Gardens 2.7 ha50 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,410 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bennett Memorial Recreation Ground 3.3 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,190 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 4.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 13, High Street North, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m south-east. 53 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
13, High Street NorthListed building, Grade II*290 m south-east
Priory HouseListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Priory Gateway and attached wallsListed building, Grade I530 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Priory Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Dunstable PrioryScheduled monument570 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable DownScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
A medieval warren on Dunstable DownsScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stipers HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
The GreenWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Blue Waters WoodlandWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Grove SpringWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Dame Ellen's WoodWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Skimpot WoodWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55344

1 of the street's 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Dunstable Icknield Lower SchoolPrimary3–9480 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Ashton St Peter's VA C of E School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11540 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Priory AcademyAll-through9–16780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.0 (46.2 in 2025 and 41.7 in 2024); 45% grade 5+ in English and maths
All Saints Academy Dunstable Church of EnglandSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 35.7 (36.9 in 2025 and 36.1 in 2024); 28.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D-; 0% AAB or better; progress average
Westfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beecroft AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 39% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 32% in 2024 and 18% in 2023)
Watling Lower SchoolPrimary2–91 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection None published
Queensbury AcademySecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.4 (40.0 in 2025 and 39.9 in 2024); 38.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 3.5% AAB or better; progress average
Lancot SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Ardley Hill AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 42% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Lark Rise AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 88% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Willow Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.5 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 220 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Dunstable Learning Centre LU6 1SU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 220 m
Dunstable Kumon Centre LU6 1LA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 260 m
Diamond Days Nursery LU6 1LN Full day care 24 Not inspected yet 320 m
Dunstable Training & Tuition LU6 3SN Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 410 m (0.3 miles)
Linden House Nursery LU6 1SE Full day care 36 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 420 m (0.3 miles)
Kidz Zone Club - Dunstable Icknield LU6 3AG Out-of-school day care 15 Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Red Bird Tutoring LU6 1EW Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 540 m (0.3 miles)
Little Steps at St Georges School LU5 4HR Full day care 60 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
Creative Sports Coaching at Beecroft Academy LU6 1DW Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
AJJ'S Nurseries T/A Bizzie Bees LU6 3QF Full day care 50 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 281 childminders and 49 home childcarers (nannies) in Central Bedfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
EFES BBQ LU6 1JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good8 Oct 2025
King Chicken LU6 1JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 mAwaiting inspection
The Globe LU6 1LSPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good27 Jul 2022
Ace Chicken LU6 1LSTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good15 Aug 2024
Cookies & Cream LU6 1JLTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good13 Jan 2021
Dunstable Foodbank LU6 1LERetailers - other110 m5 Very good23 Jul 2024
Fast & Fresh Pizza LU6 1JLTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
KDK Discount Food & Wine LU6 1JLRetailers - other110 m5 Very good5 Mar 2019
Dunstable Conference Centre LU6 1JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good27 Mar 2019
Iceland LU6 1LERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
You Want Beef? LU6 1LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Cool Shisha & Vape LU6 1LERetailers - other140 m5 Very good6 Jun 2024
Gao Express LU5 4EXTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m4 Good22 Jan 2026
Tops Pizza LU5 4ETTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m4 Good8 Sep 2026
Peri and Crust LU5 4EXTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good14 May 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

250 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences89
Anti-social behaviour37
Drugs27
Public order22
Criminal damage and arson14
Shoplifting14
Burglary12
Other theft11
Vehicle crime7
Bicycle theft5
Theft from the person5
Other crime3
Robbery3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (63); On or near Manchester Place (28); On or near Vernon Place (27); On or near Frances Drive (18); On or near Crown Mews (16).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 9 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 20% happened in the dark, and 30% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202230
202330
202410
202520
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
28 Nov 2025 18:36 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
20 Aug 2025 13:52 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
24 Mar 2024 13:05 Slight 2 people: 1 child A505, 30 mph Daylight
25 May 2023 11:40 Slight 2 people A505, 30 mph Daylight
26 Apr 2023 16:15 Slight 1 person A505, 30 mph Daylight
9 Jan 2023 17:52 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A505, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
10 Dec 2022 15:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Frost or ice
17 Apr 2022 12:50 Slight 1 person A505, 20 mph Daylight
9 Mar 2022 13:00 Slight 2 people A505, 30 mph Daylight
2 Jun 2021 17:24 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A505, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A505 between A5 and Station Rd, with 15,685 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 410 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A505 A4012 to A505 13,325 counted 2025 2% 240 m
B489 Not recorded 9,971 counted 2025 1% 320 m
A505 A5 to Station Rd 15,685 estimated; counted 2022 1% 410 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 297 residents in 150 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3540
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings SS Mini Mart Limited (retailers - other, LU6 1TA) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 5 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings King Sushi (Dunstable) (restaurant/cafe/canteen, LU6 1JE) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 5 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Appachi Kitchen (restaurant/cafe/canteen, LU6 1JE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 5 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Regent Street · Winfield Street · Edward Street · Manchester Place · Queensway · Chadwick Close · Court Drive · Queensway Parade · Victoria Street · Albion Street · High Street North · Frances Drive

All the streets in LU6 and across Central Bedfordshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.